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| New American Standard Gift & Award Bible; Black Imitation Leather | 
 enlarge | Author: The Lockman Foundation
Publisher: Foundation Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
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Media: Leather Bound
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Pages: 896
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 1885217714
EAN: 9781885217714
ASIN: 1885217714
Publication Date: March 1, 1997
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 The Greatest New American Standard Story Ever Told October 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Most readers come to the Bible for the first time with high expectations. People naturally assume that any book written by God must be a good one. Maybe explain the meaning of life. The nature of good and evil. The mystery of death. The path to finding true love, or hope for the future, or elevated self-esteem, maybe even a successful weight-loss plan. Whatever. Then they start reading ... and they always quit about halfway through the second book, aptly named Exodus. If you have never read the third book, Leviticus, which you probably haven't, go ahead, give it a try, it's a cure for insomnia. No one but a rabbi, or a Levite, has ever made it through the book of Leviticus without major skimming.
The New Testament is a volume that everyone should read, once, but talk about a bad case of sequelitis! Ouch! The less said about the New Testament, the better. Half the books therein were dictated by the holy Ghost to the apostle Paul, a.k.a. Saint Knucklehead, who was the most boring windbag I have ever known, except maybe Fidel Castro. I would rather read a year's worth of C-Span transcripts than to slog once more through Saint Paul's thirteen tedious epistles. Paul was not without talent and drive. But if the holy Ghost ever exhibited any real promise as a writer of prose nonfiction, he was ruined by the apostle Paul.
Surprising fact: the Holy Bible, Old and New, remains the best-selling book of all time. In some places, especially in the United States, the Bible still outsells J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. In America, God has sold more copies of His two-volume book than McDonald's has sold of its Big 'N' Tasty double cheeseburger. According to statistics supplied by Wycliffe International, the Society of Gideons, and the International Bible Society, nearly a quarter million new Bibles are sold or given as gifts in the United States every day. Which goes far toward explaining what happened to the Earth's rain forest. But your typical Holy Bible is purchased for a carry-to-church item, or for coffee-table decor. No one ever actually reads it, not even in the United States of America.
Am I wrong? Okay, perhaps you have read it. If so, you're an exceptional human being. It's not impossible: your average reader can get through both Testaments, without skimming, in about seventy hours. But truthfully, almost no one ever has ever read the Word of God from cover to cover except elderly nuns, and the occasional Christian adolescent who reads it through for sheer penance, to punish himself for having downloaded erotic pictures from the Internet, and ... but never mind.
Biblical Bible June 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the reasons that I bought this Bible, is that it LOOKS like a Bible. It's Black, it has gold edged pages, it says Bible and the version on the cover. Now that may not be important to everyone, but as there are so many Bibles these days that could fit in a shelf next to a novel and blend in I found these features very important. Its authoritative.
Also, I believe that all of the words in the Bible are divinely inspired so a Bible having the words of Jesus in Red (this one doesn't) give less importance to the other words. The first few pages allows for a giver, and receivers name,and a date. I highly reccommend it.
 Excellent Translation! April 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you follow my reviews, you know that I am Anglo Catholic and that the 2 versions I use most are the "Good News" and the ORIGINAL "Revised Standard." I have respect for the "King James," the "New King James," the "Jerusalem," the "English Standard Version," and the "Holman Christian Standard." I do NOT like the NIV or the NRSV. Onto the subject at hand. The NASB is widely praised as the most literally accurate version. It does not contain the Apocrypha. But being that this is a Protestant Bible, we can't really hold that against it. The NASB is widely accepted in Protestant churches. For the most part, it is carefully literal. I consider it an interesting cross between the "Revised Standard" and the "New King James." My one slight complaint is that it is not quite as beautifully written as the "Revised Standard." But that said, the "New American Standard" is excellent.
Biblia de las Americas July 19, 2007
Excelente Biblia, la mejor traduccion del original que hay leido jamas! Lo unico que le falta es que las palabras de Jesus sean en rojo. No tiene concordancia, pero es magnifica para los latinos! Comprendi mas al leer el Nuevo Testamento que lo que habia entendido en otras!
Very Nice Bible March 6, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very nice Bible. It's held up very nicely to a lot of usage. A very good value for the money.
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